Jason’s Blog

Sunday, 26/11/2006

Followed my parents to Pudu market since I wanted to be in Sungai Wang by 10.30 a.m. to meet the guys for a karaoke session later. I passed by a stall where an old lady was selling frogs. The old lady simply grabbed a frog from the cage, held it by its abdoment and whacked its head with a wooden stick twice without any feeling. WHACK! WHACK!!! And she placed the poor old guy onto a weighing scale to be skinned later. The poor frog was already half dead and I’m sure was suffering from concusion and could only wobble weakly in the weighing pan. The old lady then took another frog and repeated her actions. Whenever she whacked the frog, I couldn’t help but cringe at the sight of the frogs. Although I know that it’s part of a day’s job for a frog seller in a market, I can’t help but disliking her for being so cruel.

Reached Sungai Wang with more than half an hour to spare, so I went up to the 6th floor and looked around at the half opened shops. I went into the arcade, hoping to find the dancing game called Para Para Paradise 2 but to my disappointment, they didn’t have it. The next best they had was the Drum Game. The rest came later and we booked into Room 48 for our karaoke session. We booked for 3 hours and our session should last from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For the first time in karaoke, I sang so many Chinese songs. My favourite was Long Jee Sum Sin (the theme song for the show SEPET) by Sam Hui. I had hunted high and low for the lyrics in the net but couldn’t find it, so out of desperation, I listened to the songs a few times yesterday and decided to write it out myself…Hehe…Well, it was really worth all the effort. Halfway through the session, I had lost my voice after singing Numb by Linkin’ Park…Haha, never shouted so much before either.

The karaoke session was supposed to end at 2 p.m., so by 1.50 p.m., we were already choosing one last song to be sung by everybody. After that song, we were surprised that we could still choose some other songs, so we chose another ‘last song‘ again. And even after that song, we could still choose other songs, so we thought that maybe RedBox had allowed us to sing until 2.10 p.m. After 2.10 p.m., again we were surprised that the remote control could still be operated, so we just continue singing happily. Since we had already paid them at 1 something, RedBox wouldn’t ask us to pay some more. Furthermore, no one came to clear our table or shoo us away, so we stayed put and sang even more. Every now and then, some other patrons would peer into our room and that really freaked us out. We were thinking "Are they waiting for us to leave so that they can enter?" "Will RedBox charge us again when we leave the room?" Luckily they went away and we continued singing. Then at about 2.45 p.m. Alex chose a song entitled "Geng Ko Gam Kok" which was a really, really, really looooonggggg song… It lasted about 10 minutes and when it finally ended, we couldn’t operate the remote control anymore, so it was time for us to leave. Hmmm, considering we paid a-3-hour-session for 4 hours, it was really worth it!!! Somebody must have done some very good deeds indeed to be repaid by an hour extra of singing…Yeah!!!!!!!!!!

After that, we walked over to Times Square to hunt for PC games since it’s cheaper there and they had a Buy 4 Free 2 CD offer. I finally found SimCity 4000 in one of the shops there. I’ve been to about 3 different PC shops lately and all of them don’t seem to stock up this particular game. Since Ee Ling bought 4 CDs, I got mine for free (which we then split evenly). Then we went over to the Arcade. I raced with Chun Wai and Alex in a racing game called Battle Gear 4. It really sucks!!! The steering wheel was so difficult to control and I kept crashing into both of their cars. Somehow Alex always seem to start faster than both of us even though we crashed at the same time. Later I found out that he was using manual, which enabled him to start the car faster than automatic transmission. I swear I’m NOT playing this game anymore!!! Yuck!!! Then I played Para Para Paradise 2. The sensors in Times Square is not as sensitive as the one in 1 Utama, causing me to miss so many "dance steps". But at least I got to play what I had wanted all along, so what the heck.

After that, we walked back to Sungai Wang to have a drink. We went to this shop that sells Bubble Tea and I ordered Mango Bubble Tea. While drinking, we discussed our plans to go to Genting and Ipoh for Christmas. We were given our photographs that we took at 1 Utama the last time and had a field time trying to divide the loot among us. By luck, I got to keep 2 large photographs which had nice shoot of us. Haha…

It had really been a wonderful day today. Now it’s time to play SimCity 4000. Muahahaha